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Practical Yoga for Personal Trainers Print CE Course Updated Version

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Practical Yoga for Personal Trainers, Updated Edition Print CE Course helps fitness professionals customize yoga programs based on clients’ goals and needs. This course presents more than 50 yoga postures that strengthen and support clients at all levels and explains the basic kinesiology behind each exercise. Breathing techniques, meditations, visualization, and affirmations are also covered.

Practical Yoga for Personal Trainers presents sport-specific yoga programs for jogging, cycling, golf, tennis, and dance conditioning as well as yoga programs for general flexibility, upper- and lower-body strength, core stability, weight loss, and stress reduction. Programs alleviate chronic fatigue, back pain, and discomforts of pregnancy. The course concludes with a continuing education exam for credit through participating organizations.

Course Objectives

Teach 21 classic yoga posses using cues and demonstration.

Identify the basic kinesiology for 21 common yoga poses.

Identify the four categories of contraindicated yoga poses.

Understand why yoga qualifies as a somatic science.

Explain the significance of sensory awareness and how it relates to yoga asana.

Teach poses that strengthen the multifidus muscle and support core stability.

Audience

A continuing education course for athletic trainers, physical therapists
and physiotherapists, group fitness and yoga instructors, and fitness
professionals

About the Author

Linda-Christy Weiler is the Executive Director for the Academy of
Holistic Fitness, a company that provides yoga and somatic-based
perceptive and integrative fitness continuing education courses for
certified fitness professionals. She has a Master’s degree in Somatic
Studies (the Self experienced as a body), a Bachelor’s degree in
Psychology, and more than twenty-five years of experience as a fitness
professional and movement educator.

She served as director of the Yoga Fitness Program at the Hindu Cultural
Center in Nashville’s Ganesha Temple for eleven years, and has trained
in various styles of yoga including Sivananda, Kriya, Bikram, and
Iyengar techniques. Her certifications include NASM CPT & CES, ACE
Health Coach, and ACE Group Fitness Instructor. She is an affiliate
member of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP),
and a past member of the International Association for Dance Medicine
and Science (IADMS).

What distinguishes her teaching is her interest in the effect of this
work on the total person, not just on the body. She believes that
health, fitness, and lifetime happiness are attained through a
combination of physical, psychological, and spiritually-based training
techniques, and that the essential qualities of poise, self-respect,
inherent nobility, discipline, and loving kindness are integral aspects
of optimal wellness.

Reviews

"I learned how to enhance the mindfulness of my training practice for
myself and for my clients. The materials and information were very
valuable for life and for my business."

T. Jackier—La Jolla, California

"This course gave me the tools I need to confidently incorporate yoga
into my clients’ workouts and help them benefit from it. I now know
better techniques to incorporate with my clients.”

S. Hall—Percival, Iowa

"This knowledge will help many of my clients with becoming more
self-aware. The course also gave me many ways to apply stretching and
relaxing in my personal training regimens."

L. Christopher—Frisco, Texas

"I will use this content to enhance the flexibility and overall
well-being of my clients through use of the stretching and relaxation
techniques that I have learned."

D. Penich—St. Williams, Ontario

"This course offered wonderful explanations, pictures, and practical
applications with a great deal of information in a usable format. There
are great question-and-answer sections along with the review section at
the end of each chapter."

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